Down Detector, which tracks internet outages, said that as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time there had been more than eight million reports related to Amazon Web Services, many from the United States and Britain. Amazon Web Services’ thousands of clients rely on it for complex, demanding, data-intensive operations, including streaming video, running web applications and storing huge amounts of digital information. The problem extends to other governments, many of which rely on such cloud services, he said. In the first half of the year, Amazon Web Services accounted for nearly 20 percent of Amazon’s sales, but about 60 percent of its operating profit. The latest outage could add urgency to demands for companies and governments to rely on cloud services in their regions.

Source: The Times October 20, 2025 13:42 UTC